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Somerset Lookup Requests / Re: Can anyone help me
« on: Sunday 14 June 09 17:01 BST (UK)  »
Hi Sue, Thanks for the warm welcome.  I'm trying to tie in three different Norris families.  I'm doing research for myself and two others.  I found some info today and wonder if it rings a bell with anyone on this board?

Henry J. Norris b: 5/1866 in Edington, Burtle and his father William b: 1837 are from a friends family.  It looks like William's father might have been a George b: 1792 in Edington d: 1868 in Edington.  If ancestry.com is correct then George's father was a Matthew b: 1755 and died 1834 in Edington or in that area. 

I'm pretty sure in my last note I wrote that William was married to Sarah Cox and she died right after the birth of Stephen.  The Norris', the Cox's and the Pitman's keep coming up but other than Sarah's marriage to William, I can't tie the families together.  I am sure Henry, William's son,  didn't just get off the boat and hand Mary Ann to strangers.  The Pitman's were from Bridgwater and both of the other families have records that show they were either born there, married in that town or moved between Edington and Bridgwater.          Dottie/Emerald

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Somerset Lookup Requests / Re: Can anyone help me
« on: Thursday 04 June 09 17:04 BST (UK)  »
Hi All, I'm new here so I'm not sure if you already have this information.  Someone on this board asked what happened to William.  William Norris and his son Henry J. were on the ship, Etruria and they landed in NY on 21 March 1892.  They lived in Sennett, N.Y.  Henry brought his family  with him. His wife died in England around the time their last child was born.  Henry's children were Anna and Bessie (twins) Norris b: 9 Jan 1889 and Mary Ann b: 1891.  When they reached New York, Mary Ann was either given to or adopted by Charles and Harriett Pitman of Elbridge, NY.  While checking info on ancestry, I found a Pitman family in Edington. I'm trying to find if the Pitman's were related to the Norris family.

Henry remarried in New York.  The only info I can find on his wife is that she was born in England and her name was Anna B. b: 31 Dec 1861.  Henry and Anna had three boys: Harold J. b: 8 July 1895; Lester W b: 28 May 1896 and George H b: 19 Dec 1899.  We have not been able to locate the death records on William, Henry J. or Anna.  I do have info on the children is anyone is interested.

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